Compassion Fatigue

As I reflect on 2021 it has been a taxing year on the #pharmacy profession & through it all #pharmacists have stepped up to help protect their communities & provided optimal patient care which gives us optimism for the future.

Dr. Ronald Bergman, a prominent plastic surgeon in Des Moines, Iowa, was also sued recently by a fellow plastic surgeon who accused him of hurling crude, misogynistic insults at her in front of patients and staff.

Insults and threats from bullies, bots, anti-vaxxers and others unhappy with what the science indicated all took aim at doctors on Twitter this year.

The Friendly Calls program pairs participants with trained Red Cross volunteers who typically call once a week to chat.

National and state associations have launched a tool that pharmacy personnel can use to describe both positive and negative workplace experiences, helping to form an aggregate picture.

All indicators point to a growing mental health crisis among Canada's doctors–and to an urgent need to expand the country's capacity to help them.

Like their counterparts across the country, pharmacists here are struggling to keep up with rapidly changing vaccine and booster policies.